Osgoode EJS Clinic

Grateful to have collaborated with @DeborahLCurran to launch justice, ecology, law & place amongst friends #JELP9

We came together with care/joy these past few days on unceded Algonquin territory to build community and commemorate Meinhard @J_Env_Law_Prac. Inspiring conversations, long lake swims and overdue reunions

Another great piece by @thenarwhalca tracking the many changes to Ontario’s environmental laws - all contrary to environmental justice, where communities must have a right to know and participate #onpoli #justice #environment thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enviro…

And congratulations to @OsgoodeNews 2L student Lo Stevenson who prevailed over colleagues in a rousing game of environmental law trivia to win a copy of The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated (Redford and Gevisser, eds., OR Books)

Last seminar with the @OsgoodeNews students in the 2022-2023 EJSC yesterday. Hard saying goodbye to this fantastic crew. Smart, critical, committed.

How law schools are creating a "pipeline" of talent straight into fossil-defending, climate villain firms: student debt is a crucial driving factor

@NeskantagaFN demands to exercise its own jurisdiction over its homelands, and to have its own laws and protocols respected in the #RingofFire

This case is crucial to follow: why should police be allowed to serve companies by preventing us from understanding the impacts of extraction on Indigenous communities and the land? thenarwhal.ca/bracken-rcmp-c…

Osgoode’s EJSC student Lo Stevenson also attended the Conference of the Parties (COP15) last month. In Lo’s recent blog, they argue that area-based conservation should proceed at the watershed level to protect critical habitats: bitlylinks.com/IJ9koA9X9

In Emma’s complimentary blog, she discusses the tension between environmental goals and economic goals, alongside the need for conservation economies in the context of the Convention of Biological Diversity: bitlylinks.com/VP0gy2Sf1

Osgoode’s EJSC student Emma Workman attended COP15 for the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal last month. In Emma’s recent blog, she examines Indigenous Peoples’ role in achieving area-based conservation goals around 30x30: bitly.ws/yZs8

Last Wednesday, we took the class outside! Thanks to @OsgoodeNews JD/MES student Celia White and MES student Michelle Kushnir for a moving presentation on the rights of rivers, while reflecting on our place in the Black Creek watershed

Students of environmental justice must study the resistance of Grassy Narrows...

Looking forward to this exciting event Wednesday! We will hear directly from @sophiamathur, lead applicant, de-briefing the recent hearing in the youth climate Charter challenge: also @Indigenous_ca @auntybre, @ecojustice_ca @N_Chalifour @CELGS and Prof Lynda Collins

One of @OzEJS partners, @WCELaw hosting this exciting panel tomorrow

@NeskantagaFN on the Attawapiskat River defending its homelands and the sturgeon from extractive infrastructure in the #RingofFire. Thanks to @TbayTurner for telling this important story youtube.com/watch?v=pbozGi…

cbc.ca/newsinteractiv…. @NeskantagaFN's sturgeon stewardship protection program, namekaa gaagige launched this summer on the Attawapiskat River, with this gorgeous image by @christibelcourt

@OzEJS is proud to support @NeskantagaFN in their defence of their right to FPIC in the Ring of Fire

MPP Sol Mamakwa is almost alone in the Legislature challenging the government's line on Ring of Fire. Indigenous peoples have to provide consent to mining in their homelands, whether Ontario needs the minerals for an energy transition or not. And he is right, we don't need them

@OsgoodeNews Prof Dayna Scott will travel with Neskantaga land defenders this week down the Attawapiskat River towards the proposed crossing for a Ring of Fire mining road. The group includes youth engaged in Lake Sturgeon protection - namekaa gaagige (many sturgeon forever)